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This video explains essential winter gardening jobs to keep plants healthy during cold weather. Learn simple maintenance tasks such as clearing beds, protecting plants and checking soil condition.
The guide covers caring for overwintering plants, preventing frost damage and preparing growing areas for the next season. These steps help gardens stay organised and make spring planting easier.
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hello and welcome to gardening with Ben
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your go-to podcast for all things green
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and growing I'm Ben your alotment guide
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and here to help you cultivate your
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garden and your passion for plants
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whether you're a seasoned Gardener or
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just starting out this podcast is for
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you each episode we'll dig into tips
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tricks and techniques to make your
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garden and alotment thve from planting
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sewing and growing we will share all the
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tips and AD advice we will also have
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regular episodes talking about what we
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have been up to on the alarm so sit back
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grab a brew and enjoy today's
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episode hey everyone and welcome back to
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gardening with Ben for another brand new
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episode well I hope you've enjoyed the
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podcast this week we've had an episode
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every single day so if you're catching
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up make sure you go back and listen to
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all the episodes from this week there's
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certainly plenty on there nice and short
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as per usual they're usually about 10
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minutes long we don't let them drag on
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too much we try and not waffle on for
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ages but yeah we are back and it is the
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weekend and obviously over this weekend
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you will get podcasts talking about
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everything that we've been getting up to
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on the allotment fingers crossed we will
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be down there today and hopefully
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getting lots of work done because now
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it's time to move inside I've sorted
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most of my plot out on the outside
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everything that I needed to get done so
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it's time to move into the shed and I've
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been looking forward to this bit because
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this is a bit that I enjoy I enjoy doing
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all the building all the maintenance
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work and yeah we're going to give our
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shed a massive revamp on the inside of
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it which I've got a good Vision in my
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head whether it'll come out like Vision
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that is the question but you'll have to
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stay and see how well we get on with it
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we're going to build like a proper
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counter to do all my potting on and
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plant up all my plants up on and yeah
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I'm going to use this counter to do all
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my filming at as well because then you
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can see all my videos I can do videos of
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my S my seeds doing all my potting up
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and doing like examples and sharing
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ideas from it so yeah this counter I've
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got an idea for it whether it'll look
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like I actually want it to look like I
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want it all to be nicely wooden paneled
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and I want it all to be painted a nice
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color and then I'm thinking of having a
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backdrop behind me and having my logo on
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this counter as well to make it look
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quite professional but the question is
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if it actually comes out like this we
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will
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see but yeah we will see how well it
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actually comes on and looks looks like
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so hopefully we'll have a
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good a good outcome we've got plenty of
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wood saved up uh my shed's full of wood
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so I need to start using some of it up
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so that it don't all go rotten and yeah
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hopefully it's going to look good but
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we'll share progress photos as we're
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going along and I I plan on repainting
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on all the inside of my shed I'm going
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to clear loads of rubbish away from
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inside of it uh put some shelving up uh
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sort all my plant pots out sort all my
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seed trays out and basically give it a
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nice freshen up and just so that it's
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more aesthetic when I'm doing all my
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filming because I want to start looking
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a bit more
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professional I'll never be professional
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I'm a yorkman but yeah hopefully fingers
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crossed it will start to come together
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so at this moment in time I've just put
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my drills on charge so hopefully they
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will be charged for tomorrow so that we
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can start building
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it obviously this week we've got
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Saturday and Sunday down there then it's
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Christmas Day on Wednesday and yeah
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hopefully I'll be back down at the
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allotment onboxing day as I have nothing
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planned to do I've got a boring life and
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yeah hopefully I'll be back down on
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boxing day as well because I might
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actually sew all my onion seeds because
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that's an old Gardener tradition to
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plant the onions on boxing day so I'm
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going to plant my onion seeds on box in
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there I think I'm going to stick by
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Tradition now the the only other thing
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that I Do by tradition is my potato
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planting as well because they sayfe to
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plant them on Good Friday it's all to do
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with the moon so I've always stuck to
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grow it planted them on Good Friday even
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though Good Friday moves every single
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year I've always stuck to that date of
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planting them and they always come out
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good so we may try the tradition of PL
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in my onion seeds on boxing day get in
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touch and let me know if you plant your
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onion seeds on boxing day uh obviously
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you don't need to actually sew them till
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like January time but if you want in big
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ones or exhibition sized ones start them
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off around now as that is what people do
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obviously I'll be sewing them indoors
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inside my shed uh I'll not be planting
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them outside till March time so
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hopefully by they'll have shot up and be
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growing pretty strongly and I'm going to
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do a comparison video again this year
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I'm going to show what the difference is
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between planting from a seed and
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actually sewing onions from sets as well
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so you'll be able to stay up to date see
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the progress of how they're both getting
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on we'll plant them both near each other
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so the soil will be pretty similar uh
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they be the same amount of sunlight and
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we'll see how well they both actually
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grow and see which one
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actually does best whether it's worth
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growing them from seed or whether it's
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worth growing them from the set which is
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like a little bulb so let me know which
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one you think will grow better as I have
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done this before and I know which ones
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actually did the best so let me know
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which one you think will grow the best
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let me know if you grow seed or if you
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grow set as well I'd like to know what
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people actually
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do so hopefully we need to do that so I
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best get some compost actually this week
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weekend before the shut over Christmas
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so I'll put that on my list I need to
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get some compost in the morning on the
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way to the alotment so yeah I'm looking
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forward to that you never know I might
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be actually filming it on my new um
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table that's if it's not collapsed
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already cuz KN in my look it'll collapse
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the day that I build
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it but no I'm going to try and make it
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as strong as possible I about e even
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actually lay on it to make so sure it's
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strong and stable enough um see if it
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survive my weight which is a lot of
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weight but yeah that's our plan for this
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weekend start building inside my shed
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I've not got too much else to be getting
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on with down at the alotment I've still
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got to Winter wash all my fruit trees
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and that's a case of if you look at
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Amazon and look for winter wash um
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they're basically what you spray on your
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fruit trees to stop the winter moth from
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hibernating on them over the winter and
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laying its eggs and then they would
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hatch and then they'll obviously go
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inside your fruit and eat your fruit and
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stuff like that so it's case of
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protecting them a bit from pests and
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stuff like that and I also need to buy
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some green sticky tape to stick around
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them as well because that stops
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everything actually crawling up them and
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getting to the fruit as well so the more
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things that I can do to prevent them
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from getting damaged the best because
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the bug what damages my apples the most
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you it's not wasps it's not Birds it's
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not squirrels it's wood lice yes wood
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lice when I were picking all my apples
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last year and the years before that I
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look inside the core and there's a wood
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lice um inside the little hole where the
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stalk goes hiding away keeping warm out
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of the way and yeah they've obviously
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eaten a bit of the top of it as well so
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I need to start protecting them more
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from the wood lice as well let me know
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if you get issues with woodlice eating
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yours and if you're managing to prevent
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the woodlice from eating them let let me
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know how you do it because obviously I
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don't like spraying my fruit and stuff
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like that I'll use this winter wash
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which is like organic type but I don't
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like spraying the fruit once they on
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with pesticides or anything like that so
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yeah I like to be as organic as much as
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possible on my fruit and veg side it's
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what makes it taste better as well so
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let me know your thoughts on that so get
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in touch as well to let me know what
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you're getting up to at the allotment
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this weekend if you're going down if you
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har in your Christmas dinners as well
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that's the main part who's grown brussel
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sprouts not me I absolutely hate
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them who's growing them and yeah who's
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growing parsnips who's growing your
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potatoes have you got a full Christmas
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dinner from your alotment now that will
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be the perfect Christmas dinner all your
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vegetables all from your lotman and yeah
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a nice scrumptious Christmas dinner but
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I will keep these podcasts going all
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week you will leave even get one on
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Christmas day as well so make sure you
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stay tuned for the podcasts on Christmas
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Day and yeah I'm glad you all enjoyed
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listen the better so until next time
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everyone when we come back tomorrow when
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we find out what we being up to the
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alotment today that's if we' managed to
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do anything hopefully we will have done
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so make sure you all come back tomorrow
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until next time everyone remember keep
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